by Hans J. Wollstein
review
According to Hal Roach, the appearances of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in this Max Davidson comedy was meant to advertise the new team, who had just finished their first true co-starring comedy, the prison farce The Second Hundred Years (1927), and were still wearing their hair shorn. Their sequence here, alongside Chase and Finlayson, seems improvised and feels rather like a home movie. In contrast, the harried Davidsons behave almost like normal people caught up in a situation beyond their control. Perhaps the funniest moment occurs when Max spills water on the kitchen floor and Lillion Elliott's light mopping up removes the entire pattern from the linoleum.
